Daisy Lowe on coming to terms with her curves

The modelling contracts might continue to pour in for Daisy Lowe - she is the current face of Biba, Braun epilators and Stephen Webster - but under the successful surface, the 22-year-old famed for her creamy complexion, long legs and curvaceous frame, has revealed how she has found it hard to accept that she will never be as thin as the top names in the modelling game.

In an interview with the July issue of InStyle, of which she graces the cover, Lowe said: "It's taken me seven years to get to the point where I can be comfortable with not being as thin as the rest of them."

She added: "The public can say, 'It's really cool that you're not conforming to this anorexic ideal', but then I still have to go and stand next to all of the other girls."

The daughter of singer turned designer Pearl Lowe and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (who Lowe only discovered was her biological father when she was aged 14), she first took to the runway at just 15 for the FrostFrench fashion show during London Fashion Week, and is a favourite of designers Vivienne Westwood, Pam Hogg and PPQ, who regularly pick her to star in their catwalk shows. But the experience of working alongside sample-size models has clearly had an affect on Lowe: "I'm not saying that I am big, but when you stand next to a beanpole, you're going to look like a massive tree trunk."

London-born Daisy, who is a relationship with Dr Who star Matt Smith, also revealed how she has only come to terms with her physique in the past six months: "Before then…it was hard. I used to have private meltdowns all the time."

But a quick look over recent pictures of Daisy modelling
her design debut
- a swimwear collection for high street retailer Peacocks - reveals a perfectly proportioned pin-up, without a spare pound in sight.